It is very difficult to determine when a bad headache is more than just a bad headache. Headaches are a very common affliction. Almost all people will experience a headache at least once during their lifetime. They can cause quite a significant amount of pain. Some headache symptoms include: a pain that affects any part of the head, sometimes accompanied by nausea, also sometimes accompanied by neck pain, dizziness, and disorientation. Sometimes the onset of a severe headache can be explained and other times it can be difficult to determine what caused your pain. However it is very important to determine whether or not you should seek medical help for your headache.

There is much confusion to what causes a headache or what a headache actually is. It is believed that some headaches are caused by constricted blood flow in the blood vessels around the head. While other headaches are thought to originate from severe muscle contractions that after the muscles are relaxed cause pain. However it has little to do with the brain directly since brain tissue itself has no sensitivity to pain.

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Although we still do not entirely understand headaches one thing that we do know is that two of the commonest types of headache – tension and migraine headaches – are far more commonly seen in women, which suggests that hormones play an important part in the onset of headaches. So, since hormone levels fluctuate wildly during pregnancy, it is no surprise to find that women frequently suffer from headaches at this time.

Headaches are particular common during the early stages of pregnancy and tend to reduce during the second and third trimester as hormone levels begin to settle down. The good news however is that women do not simply have to put up with headaches while they are carrying and there is a  lot which can be done to both prevent and treat them.

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